The Basement - Big Kick Drum Mic Comparison

(please watch in high quality, the video's better but more importantly the sound is better! Also this one will sound much better on headphones due to the importance of the stereo imaging.)

Demonstration of the sound of seven microphones that can be used on kick drum - Shure Beta 52a, AKG D112, Electro-Voice RE20, Sennheiser MD421, Shure SM7b, Audix D6, and Sennheiser e602.

Microphones used:
Overheads: Spaced pair of vintage Neumann KM84s
Snare top: Shure SM57
Snare bottom: MXL 991
Rack and floor tom: Sennheiser MD421
Room mics: Spaced pair of MXL 603s

Видео The Basement - Big Kick Drum Mic Comparison канала Jesse Gimbel